During a Cabinet meeting last week, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed what is now the second-worst measles outbreak in the US since the disease was declared ...

U.S. measles cases in six states now exceed 700, and two children and an adult have died. A look at the situation in each ...

Measles infections after vaccination are rare, and there are no documented cases of healthy, fully vaccinated people dying from the virus.

Since January 2025, the United States has been confronting its most significant measles outbreak in over a decade. The disease, declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, has been confirmed to ...

The toll of the resurgence isn't measured only by deaths, but also includes the stress to hospital systems, the cost of the ...

More than 540 measles cases have been reported in Texas, where two unvaccinated children with no underlying health conditions have died.

Immunization programs nationwide have been left brittle by years of stagnant funding by federal, state and local governments.

A school-aged child died at a Texas hospital where they were receiving treatment for measles, marking the second death of a ...

The Texas Department of State Health Services has reported 561 cases of measles in 10 counties, with the highest number in Gaines County, and recommends that people get the MMR vaccine to prevent ...

The United States recorded three measles deaths in the first 24 years of this century. In just over three months of 2025, it ...

Both children were unvaccinated. The CDC said the deaths were the first from measles in the U.S. since 2015. An unvaccinated New Mexico man who tested positive for measles after he died in March ...

Measles is making a troubling comeback in the U.S., driven by declining vaccination rates and rising vaccine hesitancy.